id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,priority,milestone,component,version,severity,resolution,keywords,cc,actualpoints,parent,points,reviewer,sponsor
2938,Add a simple activity indicator to the system tray,mwenge,feroze,"It would be nice if I didn't have to open and inspect the network view to establish for a fact that an application I'm using is routing traffic through Tor.
At the moment I have to launch a request from the application, then tab over to, or open, the Vidalia network view and make sure there are active streams there.
A small indicator displaying the count of active streams in the system tray would save me this trouble. I think it would also provide useful visual feedback for any user beginning an anonymous browsing session. If they don't see the activity indicator update they know there's a problem. When they first use Tor/Vidalia/Torbutton they will get some reassurance that their setup is properly configured.
At the moment users are blind, and it is very easy to spend some time using a misconfigured torbutton or application before discovering your error.
This is a rudimentary implementation of the idea:
https://github.com/mwenge/vidalia/commit/543e40c2b86e410b2954bfd51050bfe4cd288014",enhancement,closed,Medium,Vidalia: 0.3.x,Archived/Vidalia,Vidalia 0.2.10,Normal,wontfix,archived-closed-2018-07-04,chiiph,,,,,